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12-12-2004, 05:39 PM
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Steps
I've been playing Steps this week. 0-2 at the $500 level which is pretty sad since you don't have to do more than win A hand and stay out of trouble to advance to the $1000 level.
I came in playing on the $50 level. I decided to play a level win a few seats and move up after I worked at DM the current level and the one above. DM is a pain with losing half your tables every 45 minutes or so. When I take my last $500 freeroll I think I will enter from the $200 level, because even though the play is better than the $50 level I saw a lot of clear strategy mistakes for such a flat payoff structure. The $500 and $1000 levels have excellent players, few outright fish, making these levels zero earn for me. Not the kind of spot I like, added varience and no added earn<shudder>. With reseaching the the list of signed up players I feel less than 20% of the fields are playable to me. I was watching a $1000 fill up with 17-9-3(VP$P-PFR-Ag. total postflop) player-types when I saw a respected poster here sign up as #18. Granted that good percentages don't mean that the player will play properly for the flat-payoff at the $500, but he was playing with many good players, like himself, under a normal two table payoff. While he is a much better player than myself the complete lack of game selection surprised me. MS Sunshine 
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#2
12-12-2004, 06:04 PM
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Re: Steps
I've played in some of these. I've been buying in to Step 3 usually and working my way up from there. I've been keeping my eye on the $1000 tables, and you're right, most are filled with the regulars that kill the 200 SnGs. Not all are like that though. I played my first $1000 yesterday, and the field was pretty soft, considering.
The $500s are an incredible grind IME and are generally pretty boring. Cup
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12-12-2004, 06:29 PM
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Re: Steps
Yes, all are two tables, but with vastly different payoff structures. The $1000 level is $9K-5K-3.6K-2.4K which is close to the regular 2-table payoff structure and much different than any of the levels in step.
MS Sunshine
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12-12-2004, 06:34 PM
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Re: Steps
While writing this I finally won at the $500 level, I'll play the $1K sometime today.
Back to DM. MS Sunshine
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12-12-2004, 07:34 PM
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Re: Steps
I started playing these yesterday, entering at level 2. My first $55 got me almost straight to level 5 (repeated level 3 one time), and I played it last night with sharks like Gigabet, ZeeJustin, and Missyrules (who has apparently won like 3 of these)...
Got down to final 6 with 2nd in chips, and I made the mistake of overestimating my opposition. In the SB, with the 5th and 6th stacks relatively low, I made the mistake of attacking the 3 stack with QTo. I assume he'd be autofolding anything but aces and kings, but he called with AJ and I didn't improve. That crippled me, and next thing I know instead of being a lock for $2400 I end up with nothing. *sigh* I gotta get rid of these late miscues... they're costing me thousands. :-(
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